Omari Sealy, left, uncle of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, and family attorney Chris Dolan walk with an unidentified person to news conference outside Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif., to announce that Sealy's niece will be moved to an undisclosed location in the Bay Area on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. McMath has been declared brain dead after she went into Children's Hospital to have her tonsils out. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

OAKLAND -- Reversing a stand officials had taken hours earlier, Children's Hospital Oakland agreed Friday to release a 13-year-old brain-dead girl whose family had asked she be moved to another facility.

The letter came one day after the family's attorney, Christopher Dolan, wrote hospital officials asking them to release Jahi McMath -- who doctors say was left brain-dead from complications after a Dec. 9 surgery to remove her tonsils and clear tissue from the nose and throat to help her breathe.

The girl's family on Thursday said the family had found a "greater Bay Area facility" that would give her long-term care. However, Children's Hospital officials said almost immediately that they would not give the girl a tracheotomy and surgically implant a feeding tube, conditions that the unnamed facility in the East Bay had insisted upon.

As a result of the uncertainty, the family was unable to hold onto the facility's last available bed, according to their attorney. On Friday, the family said that another facility, in North Hollywood, was prepared to take the girl in, though they would also require surgical preparations.

Dolan said that if the family could not arrange to have the girl transported to that facility before a judge's deadline of 5 p.m. Monday, he would head back to the courts, asking Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo to extend his temporary restraining order. Dolan also said he would seek a federal injunction prevent the hospital from taking the girl off the ventilator.

"Children's Hospital will of course continue to do everything legally and ethically permissible to support the family of Jahi McMath," Straus wrote. "In that regard, Children's will allow a lawful transfer of Jahi's body in its current state to another location if the family can arrange such a transfer and Children's can legally do so.

"Children's is willing to cooperate in this regard even though Judge Grillo has confirmed that Jahi is deceased and that statutory patient transfer procedures do not apply here."

The two-page letter goes on to list conditions for the transfer, including that they identify the facility they plan to move her to. It also request the family identify its transportation plan from the hospital to the care facility.

"Time is obviously of the essence given the Court's December 30 deadline," the letter continues. "Since you are telling the media that the transfer is all set, you should be able to provide these details in a matter of a few minutes. If these details are provided and confirmed, Children's looks forward to immediately cooperating in further discussion of the transfer process for Jahi's body."

Dolan expressed surprise at the hospital's willingness to facilitate a transfer.

"This seems to be a complete about-face from yesterday when (hospital officials said) that they would not provide any type of support, treatment, or assistance in moving Jahi," Dolan said via text message.

Jahi's uncle, Omari Sealey, said Thursday evening that in order to move her, doctors would have to give her a tracheotomy so she could have a permanent breathing tube, and give her a gastric tube to provide nutrition.

Within minutes of his statement, however, Children's Hospital officials had released a statement saying that they did not feel that performing surgery on the body of a girl who had been found to be brain-dead was "appropriate." The hospital cited a ruling from Grillo, who found that the girl was brain-dead but ordered that the hospital keep her on a ventilator through Monday evening.

"Judge Grillo was very clear," Chief of Pediatrics David Durand said in the statement. "He ruled Jahi McMath to be deceased."

Hospital officials have not discussed specifics of the case in public, citing the family's right to medical privacy. Straus said after Grillo's ruling on Tuesday that the hospital would be interested in negotiating a time to remove Jahi from her ventilator and have intravenous fluids stopped before the Monday deadline.

The family has continued to ask for prayers for Jahi, and pastors and churchgoers from around the world have rallied around Jahi, both in person and through social media, and her uncle has said that "prayers are more important than ever, because the clock is ticking."